Category: Food Gardening

Flowers and herbs are more than just plants, they are a sustainable living organism providing all kinds of benefits to us from adding flavors in the kitchen to providing medical relief to ailments. Essential and infused oils have made a breakthrough in to the marketplace in recent years, and can…

As biological organisms, we’ve evolved innate impulses to couple up, copulate, and have a happy healthy result. These core impulses, combined with our ‘clever’ brains have led to some speculative use of plants to facilitate the attainment of amorous goals. In humanity’s on-going effort to harness the power of plants, there is…

It’s rare to find an individual who is as raw, independent, and direct in his willingness and tenacity to solve a significant problem as Ron Finley. I’m thrilled that Ron took the time for this interview for Seed-Balls.com, and hope that he’s as inspiring to you as he is to us. Visit…

As the holiday cheers and festivities begin to wind down, ringing in the New Year is a time for resolutions and healthy lifestyle changes. Many will begin to find their way to the gym and be spending more time exploring the fresh produce section of their local markets, but they…

I’m a bit of a map enthusiast having worked with some amazing digital cartographers at Penn State for almost a decade. Latitude, longitude, altitude make a big difference in the potentials of your landscape! In fact, I spend a good deal of time each day looking at maps to answer your…

Peponapis pruinosa- As we prepare to reap the bountiful benefits of the fall harvest crops that inspired our Thanksgiving traditions, we should be thankful for our native pollinators. There are nearly 4,000 diverse varieties of native bee species in North America that go unnoticed for their vital ecological services. Many native…